Necktie holder



Oct. 8, I1929.

G. s. WEBBER 1,730,834

NECKTIE HOLDER Filed April i, 1929 In Yeni-or.'

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Patented Oct. 8, 1929 UNITED STATES GEORGE S. WEBBER, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS NECKTIE HOLDER Application sied April 1,

My invention relates to the class of holders for so-called four-inhandneckties which also serve as tie tormers, which are retained in positionjointly by the front collar button and the collar of the user, and whichrequire no part of the tie to extend around the neck between the foldsof the collar.

l/Vith the heretofore proposed tie holders of this class, theinterfolded or knotted portion of the nccktie is snugly flattenedagainst la liat part of the holder, and the resulting assembly bearslatwise against the shirt of the user. Consequently, such holders do notafford the forwardly bulging and artistically rounded appearance whichis presented by a four-in-hand tie when the latter is used in theordinary manner with its medial portion extending around the neck of theuser between the folds of a collar and with the tie Furthermore, many ofthe tie holders of this class as heretofore proposed have been ofcomplicated construction, thereby increasing their cost undesirably andmaking it diilicult for an inexperienced person to use them.

My present invention aims to overcome all or' these objections whilestill providing an inexpensive and easily manufactured tie holder.Generally speaking, the objects of 30,1ny invention are those ofproviding a necktie holder which can eas-ily be'iiormed from a singlepiece of sheet metal, which will facilitate an etfective Jforming of thenecktie, and which will cause the normally exposed 35 portion of thenecktie to bulge forwardly fully as much as it would do if the tie wereused in the ordinary manner without a hold,A er. Furthermore, myinvention provides a tie holder for this purpose which will atl'ord thejust recited advantages while still providing for an easy and speedyattaching of the assembled tie and holder to the collar button of theuser.

Still further and also more detailed objects will appear from thefollowing specification and from the accompanying drawings, in which yFig. 1 is a front elevation of the normally 4 exposed portion ot anecktie tied upon a 54) holder embodying my invention, with the col-1929. Serial No. 351,518.

lar of the user partly shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the holder alone.

Fig.y 3 is a side elevation of the same holder, taken from the righthand side of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4l is a rear elevation of the same holder.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section, taken along the line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a view showing the position of various portions of the necktiewhile being tied on the holder. j

Fig. 7 shows the flat blank from which the holder is formed up.

Fig. 8 is a front elevation of another embodiment of my invention andFig. 9 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. ,10 is a horizontal section, taken along the line 9 9 of Fig. 8.

In each of the illustrated embodiments, my necktie holder is formedupfrom a single punching of sheet metal, such as brass or bronze. Itincludes ank upright stem member and a cross-head extending across theupper end thereof, the stem member having its initially lower portionrecul-ved behind its upper portion and spaced rearwardly Jfrom thelatter, and the forward part of the stem member being conveXedforwardly.

For the embodiment of Figs. 1 to 6, the holder is bent up from a flatpiece of sheet metal, blanked out as shown in Fig. 7, so as to :form asubstantially T-shaped punching comprising a cross-head 1 and a stemdepending from it, and two wings 2 extending lat-y erally from the upperportion of they said stem. Thek wings 2 are then curved for wardlytoward each other to cooperate with the intervening portion 3 of thestem for ,atlording a tube. kThis tube desirably is an incomplete(orlongitudinally spit) upright tube in which the free side edges 2 Aare suliiciently spaced from each other to permit a portion of aneckt-ie to be inserted into this tube, while the part 4 of the stembelow these wings is bent so that its major portion will extend upwardlybehind the said tube.

This upwardly extending rear stem portion, which aii'ords the supportingelement of `my tie holder, is provided with a perfo- `rai'iion which hasits endward portion 5 A100 of a restricted diameter slightly larger thanthe shank of an ordinary colla-r button, while the part 5 B of theperforation nearer to the bend in the stem is sufficiently large toclear the head of such a collar button. Furthermore, the bend in thestem is so formed that the part provided with this perforation is spacedrearwardly from the upper stein portion 3, and the rear or bent up stemportion 4 is preferably of such a length that the upper end of thenarrow part 5 A of the said perforation is approximately at the sameheight as the lower edge of the crosshead 1.

This crosshead 1 is preferably curved rearwardly from the general planeof the upper stem portion, soA as to be rearwardly Aconcaved, and eachend of the cross-head desii'ably has both a downward projection 6 and anupward projection 7.

ln using a necktie with a thus constructed holder, a portion 8 of thenecktie (intermediate of the length of the latter) is slipped throughthe gap in the tube so as te extend longitudinally through this tube,leaving the lower part 9 depending from the tube, as shown in Fig. 6.The part 10 of the necktie above the tube is then folded over the upperedge of the crosshead 1, curved around the front 'of the tube and turnedupward behind the crosshead, after which the free end portion y11 of thetie is slipped down between the tube and the resulting frontal knotportion 12. A downward pull on the free end portion 11 of the tie thentightens the knot, thereby forming the tie and holder assembly shown inFig. 1, which assembly can easily be attached as a unit to the shirt andcollar of the user by merely interlocking the perforated rear stemportion l with his collar button and snapping the ends of the crosshead1 under trie wings 16 of the collar. Y

During the attaching of the necktie to the holder, the part S of thenecktie is cramped in the tube and this cramping resists a sliding ofthe necktie, thus making it easy for the user to form the knotted tieportion to its cesired shape. .lVhen thus formed, the wings of the tubepresent forwardly convexed portions over which the parts 11 and 12 ofthe necktie successively extend, thereby bowing these necktie partsforwardly. Moreover, since the tube projects forwardly from thecrosshead (as shown in Fig. 8), and since the crosshead is forwardlyconvexed, both the upper exposed part 11 er (Fig. 1) of the necktie, thetransversely extending part l2 and the adjacent depending portion 11 Bare all decidedly convexed and bulged forwardly. Consequently, theknotted portion of the necktie not only lacks the fiattened appearanceproduced with older tie holders of this general class, but actuallyaffords a more bulging and hence more attractive effect han thatordinarilyV producedkby knotting a four-in-hand tie which extendsbetween the folds of a collar around the neck of the person wearing it.Furthermore, the gripping of the portion S of the necktie by the tubeincreases the firmness of the knotted tie, as this no longer dependsentirely on the tightening of the portion 12 over the part of vhe tiebehind that portion. By leaving a gap in the tube, l facilitate theinsertion of the necktie portion 8 in the tube, while still securing thedesired gripping of this necktie portion by the tube.

However, while I have heretofore described my invention in connectionwith an embodiment including a substantially tubular portion formedointly by the two wings and the stem portion between these wings, l donot wish to be limited in this respect, nor do l wish to be limited toother details of the construction and arrangement above described, sincemany changes might be made without departing either from the spirit ofmy invention or from the appended claims.

For example, I can secure the forward convexing of the knotted tieportion to a more limited extent without the use of forwardly curvedwings by providing a forwardly convexed stem portion against which theinner of the usual two depending necktie portions (namely the nccktieportion corresponding to the part 8 in Fig. 6) bears, as shown in Figs.8 to 10. In this embodiment, the frontal stem portion 13 carriesrelatively narrow side wings 14 which curve rearwardly and cooperatewith the interposed stein portion to afford an effectively convexedholder front. These wings do not extend alt their outer edges to thecrosshead l, thus leaving the crosshead free to be flexed forfacilitating the snapping of its ends under the wings of a collar.

F or each of the illustrated embodiments, the holder is kpreferablyformed of resilient material to permit such a flexing of its crosshead,and the attaching part of the stein is suiiiciently spaced rearwardlyfrom the forward stem part to permit both one thickness of the necktieand the head of a collar button to .extend between these stem parts. Thedownwardly directed projections G on the crosshead prevent the tie fromslipping over the ends of the crosshead during the tying and theupwardly directed projections 7 center the uppermost part of thenormally exposed necktie portion on the holder.

l claim as my invention:

1. A holder for a four-in-hand necktie, formed from a single piece ofsheet metal and comprising a crosshead having an approximatelyhorizontal axis, and a stem member depending from the middle of thecross-head; the stem member including two wings extending in oppositedirections laterally of the stem member and adjacent to the crossheadand4 recurved forwardly toward veach other to form ari-incomplete tube,the

free edges of the said Wings being spaced from each other t0 permit theinserting of a tie portion into the said tube; the stem member alsoincluding the shank extending downwardly from the juncture of the saidWings and recurved upwardly to dispose the free end oi the said shankbehind the middle of the said crosshead, the shank being provided nearits free end with a button-receiving aperture. s

Q. A neektie holder as per claim l, in which the crosshead has its endsprovided with downwardly directed projections for retaining portions ofa neckt-ie extending through the said tube and Wrapped in four-in-handformation around the crosshead and the said tube.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois7 March 29th,

` GEORGE S. WEBBER.

